retch

About 0.09 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.
2. verb To vomit; to make or experience a successful effort to vomit.
3. noun An unsuccessful effort to vomit.
4. verb To reck.
5. verb Alternative form of reach.

Similar words

disgorge regorge puke vomit upchuck regurgitate barf throw up spew honk

Often followed by

and at again as in into up or violently

Word family

retched retches retching